The Comedy of Errors: The Best of John Peel (1 May - 29 June 1992)

The advantage of rehearsing and performing plays is that it takes a little less time to plough through John Peel shows and finally arrive at the definitive mixtape from each production.  It’s taken a little under two years to chronicle The Comedy of Errors and had I been making copies of mixtapes for everyone who was pounding the boards with me at Pendennis Castle over the summer of 1992, I would have, as last time, picked out one outstanding example from each Peel show listened to and selected from during the rehearsal and performance period of the play.  And it would have sounded like this:

Circus Lupus - Pacifier (1 May 1992)

The Traveller - Date M [Live Mix] (2 May 1992)

Bark Psychosis - Blood Rush (8 May 1992)

Depth Charge - Daughters of Darkness (9 May 1992)

Arrested Development - People Everyday (15 May 1992)

Slowjam - Freefall (16 May 1992)

Skyflyer - Humanoid (22 May 1992)

Sugartime - Awestruck (23 May 1992)

Pulp - O.U (Gone, Gone) (29 May 1992)

M’Pongo Love - Partager (6 June 1992)

Maarten van der Vleuten - Spanish Fly (12 June 1992)

Urban Hype - A Trip to Trumpton (13 June 1992)

The Shamen - L.S.I (Love Sex Intelligence) (19 June 1992)

Whipping Boy - Submarine (20 June 1992)

Cosmic Baby - Cosmikk Trigger 1 (28 June 1992)

The Tabs - The Wallop (29 June 1992)

When I look at that selection, culled as it is from close to 200 selections covering the two months of working on The Comedy of Errors over May/June 1992, there are a few tracks on there such as People Everyday and L.S.I which owe their place to what I would have been thinking people would have wanted to hear back then rather than them maybe being the outstanding selections from those particular shows.  Certainly, if there was any room left in the metaphorical mixtape for bonus tracks, I’d be squeezing on Smile on Your Face by Dangerous Birds and if I have any musical advice to impart from the overall Comedy of Errors selections it would be get more Whipping Boy into your life. They’ll take you to the stars and back.

A quick housekeeping note, The Werefrogs track, Don’t Slip Away, which was posted on here a few
days ago has to make a temporary departure, but will be reposted again soon.

Next up, it’s the start of the College Years, an introduction to Castaway Theatre Company, memories of a house made of perfume, lots of body paint and Peel is away with the fairies as he soundtracks A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oct-Dec 1992).

Dedicated to the cast and crew of Falmouth Community School’s production of The Comedy of Errors staged at Pendennis Castle from 29 June to 1 July 1992.